I recently picked up a copy of The Bowyer's Craft by Jay Massey and was inspired by his shorter length bows and the pictures in the book. I built this maple backed red oak R/D with that as inspiration. It is 58" long and draws 36#@27". Around 1 5/8" wide with a convex taper to 3/8" tips. It is a trilam design with maple back, red oak core, and red oak belly with tapered back and core laminations. The powerlam is black walnut and the laminations are mirrored for the built up handle. Buffalo horn tip overlays. I heat treated the belly lamination to shape to help with ease of glue up but I don't think I got much benefit in terms of performance. Lately I have been coming a few pounds under draw weight with my bows but this one I over did it as it was almost 40#@28". As a result it took a bit more set than I would have liked, a bit over 1" so far. The top limb has some twist which I think is due to internal stresses of the board as I can't find any twist in my glue up form and the limb width was even. I crowned the back and was pleasantly surprised to see some chatoyance when putting the finish on the maple back. The wood planed beautifully so I am not concerned about grain runout. We'll see how it will hold up but it was a nice experiment to show a design that can easily get normal draw lengths out of a short bow.
